Wuthering Heights critics - mock specific

Oates on Cathy and Heathcliff

‘Fatal twins rather than individuals’

Khanis on Cathy and Heathcliff

‘Conflict of Cathys marriage is solved by her death, the relationship with Heathcliff is projected into the life beyond death’

David Cecil on Cathy and Heathcliff

‘fiery, untamed children of the storm’

David Cecil on the setting

‘The setting is a microcosom of the universal scheme’

David Cecil on the Linton’s

‘The gentle, passive, timid Lintons’

Beauvoir on Cathy

‘In order to love, women must lose their own identity. She is he’

Kettle on Social Class

‘WH is not concerned with love but the lives of living people and property ownership’

Eagleton on status

‘Heathcliff is destructive to the established order as he has no real place in society’

Eagleton - society

‘Social self is in contradiction to the authentic self’

Charlotte Bronte on Heathcliff

‘doomed to carry hell with him wherever he wanders’

Pike on Isabella

‘Isabella is an instrument of revenge for Heathcliff’

Watson of Isabella (I disagree)

‘Isabella is as weak as Cathy is strong’

Kettle on marriage

‘The social comforts and arrangement of marriages is more significant than true love’

Peele on death

‘loss of love causes the addict withdrawal symptoms’ (Hindley)

Sneidern on Hindley

a ‘negligent’ ‘tyrant’ ‘monster’

Giourard - houses

‘The country house is a stage on which the landed elite display their social status, tone and power’

Maskell - Hareton

‘Hareton becomes dependent on Heathcliff’

Ray Cluely - Cathy and Hareton

‘Cathy and Hareton they provide a certain symmetry but revise the narrative’

Donoghue - Second generation (disagree)

‘Conformity is reserved for the second generation of characters’ - I think C & H actually don’t conform to societal expectations.